Crash Dive - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[cameron]

Edward Ludwig filled in as director for several days when Archie Mayo was unavailable.

[russell]

Neither the later pictures Crash Dive (1996) nor its sequel Counter Measures (1998) (aka Crash Dive 2) are remakes of this film. They merely all share being submarine movies and being part of the sub-movie genre with a submarine term title.

[sophie]

According to the 'Hollywood Reporter', William Perlberg was originally going to be a producer on this picture. Milton Sperling was then assigned producing duties, but on 10 September 1942 he joined the Marine Corps. He was replaced by Lee S. Marcus, who joined the movie while it was in production.

[kyle]

Tyrone Power's picture credit reads "Tyrone Power U.S.M.C.R.", the latter letters after his name standing for United States Marine Corps Reserves.

[darrell]

The term "the smoking lamp is lit" is used several times. In the days before matches were widely available square rigger sailing ships provided a burning lamp so that smokers could light their pipes or cigars. It was usually located in the forecastle or near the galley where smoking was permitted. The term "the smoking lamp is lit" meant that smoking was permitted. The term "the smoking lamp is out" meant that smoking was not permitted due to dangerous proceedings such as handling gunpowder.

[frances]

Background shots for this movie were filmed at the United States Navy's Naval Submarine Base New London situated at New London, Connecticut.

[sandra]

Naval Submarine base New London is actually located in Groton, Conn. Up river and across from New London. It's the Navy's first Sub-only base and a mile up from Electric Boat shipyard which has been building submarines for over a century.

[gabriel]

The reissue version was released in black-and-white.

[linda]

This movie had two working titles: 'Submarine School' and 'SS 111'.

[ella]

'Hollywood Reporter' production reports of cast and crew state that Charley Grapewin was part of this movie's cast, but he is not seen in the final film.

[beth]

The US Navy provided naval equipment and allowed access to their fleet of submarines and also supplied service personnel.

[darrell]

'The Hollywood Reporter' reported that the United States Navy would be having a recruitment station in the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the Hollywood Premiere of this picture on 27 May 1943, planning to have it open for the whole of the movie's season at the theater.

[russell]

During normal, unhurried dives, a submarine floods the ballast tanks. The dive planes are set for minimum down angle and the sub then slowly submerges. A crash dive is used when the sub must dive quickly to escape danger. In this case the tanks are flooded, the dive planes are set for extreme down angle and propellers are used to actually drive the sub under. The difference in the angle of descent between the two can be as much as 20-25 degrees.

[norma]

Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power) drives a 1941 Mercury Convertible.

[steve]

John Payne and Randolph Scott were originally set to star.

[nina]

Dana Andrews (Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors) and Steve Forrest (Sailor) were brothers in real life.

[ava]

Final film for Tyrone Power prior to entering military service as a private. He is credited in the film as as Tyrone Power U.S.M.C.R. On 1 October 1942, Power was allowed to defer the start of his military duties in order to complete production on this movie which did not finish shooting until mid-November 1942. Power did not star in another movie until 1946 when he appeared in The Razor's Edge (1946). At the time of Power's death in 1958, he was a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.

[lena]

Norman Nesbitt was scheduled to narrate a "special trailer" for this movie according to 'The Hollywood Reporter'.

[caroline]

In the beginning scene, the boy in the raft says that he can hear airplanes, which turn out to be PT Boats. Many of the WWII PT Boats were powered by airplane engines.